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Net Applications: 18% of Mac Users Have Upgraded to Snow Leopard

Thursday October 1, 2009 9:12 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Online research firm Net Applications today released data charting the growth of Mac OS X Snow Leopard's operating system market share since its launch just over a month ago. The data suggests that approximately 1% of computer users are currently running Snow Leopard, meaning that about 18% of Mac users (which represent approximately 5% of computer users worldwide according to Net Applications' data) are currently running Snow Leopard.

On August 28th, Apple released Snow Leopard, which is version 10.6 of the Mac operating system. Since then, it has had rapid adoption. On the day of Sept. 29th, the global share of Snow Leopard was .91%, and the overall Mac share was 4.93%. This means 18.45% of Mac users have upgraded to Snow Leopard in just one month after its release.


Readers will note weekly cycles in Apple's market share showing an increase in share on weekends, presumably due to the dominance of Windows-based PCs in business settings during the work week contrasting with primarily home computer use on weekends.
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davidwarren
31 months ago
wow, I would have figured a higher adoption rate than that.
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AAPLaday
31 months ago

wow, I would have figured a higher adoption rate than that.


I imagine there are a lot of mac users running PPC machines but it will continue to grow each month
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Gauthic
31 months ago

wow, I would have figured a higher adoption rate than that.


I think this is TOTAL Mac users--including the computers that cannot run Snow Leopard--not too terrible.
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JesterJJZ
31 months ago
While I did buy it, I'm not upgrading until CS5 comes out. I'll probably get a SSD at the same time.
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neverfade
31 months ago

I imagine there are a lot of mac users running PPC machines...


And I am one of them. A proud owner of a dual 2 G5. A great machine, and while I would love the latest and greatest machine with the new OS, I simply have no reason to part with my G5, which I still consider to be a power horse...
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xhambonex
31 months ago
Sadly I'll probably buy Windows 7 before Snow Leopard due to the lack of support on Adobe's side of things. That and a handful of other programs that aren't yet supported on SL that I need for work/school.

I wan to upgrade though...
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ELScorcho9
31 months ago

I imagine there are a lot of mac users running PPC machines but it will continue to grow each month


That's exactly why I haven't upgraded yet. Hopefully I'll be getting a mac mini soon, so that will change.
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Jon-Luke
31 months ago
I can't use SL until I get an upgrade from some of the software vendors who's software I use for work - There's probably quite a lot of us mac users out there waiting for software upgrades on peripheral software.

I have the upgrade - but I just have to wait patiently...
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Lesser Evets
31 months ago
Smart people. I wouldn't recommend upgrading until the next revision comes through. 10.6.1 is still buggy enough to avoid-iWork, DVD player, PS, and other programs will just bomb every so often. Not nearly as bad as 10.6 raw, but it's still not good.
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Rodimus Prime
31 months ago

And I am one of them. A proud owner of a dual 2 G5. A great machine, and while I would love the latest and greatest machine with the new OS, I simply have no reason to part with my G5, which I still consider to be a power horse...


Ah you are part of the group that apple screwed over. I saw with in a year it will be near impossible to find new software for your computer thanks to apple intentionally forcing it to be obsolete. Sucks that you can not even get 5 years of use out of your computer.
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